Membership

Benefits Include:

• Networking: Participation in local chapter meetings, conferences, roundtables, and seminars.
• Knowledge Sharing: Access to Working Group deliverables, Advances Practices Council (APC) research, Member eNewsletters, Webcasts and SIM's online community SIMnet.org.
• Education: Access to the SIM Regional Leadership Forum, providing history-specific training for future IT leaders.
• Advocacy: The collaborative "voice" of SIM on issues such as cyberspace security and software licensing.
• Industry Leadership: Access to peers (locally and nationally) who understand and manage similar challenges and issues.
• Community Outreach and Awareness: Opportunity to contribute to the growth of the local IT community via special industry programs.

Membership Criteria
SIM's wealth of information and outreach capacity is a direct result of its diverse membership. In addition to being IT leadership-focused, SIM Membership spans across industries, concentrations and professions. To continue fostering a valuable membership experience, ensuring a quality exchange, and representative influence, SIM's three member categories are:

Practitioner

A senior-level IT professional in either a public or private sector orgranization meeting the following criteria:

• Corporate/divisional head of a corporate or divisional IT organization. Member of an IT management staff supporting corporate/divisional IT heads with key management roles, as certified by the head of the organization.

Academic

A full-time university or college faculty member making a significant contribution to the IT field.

Consultant

Leaders at the partner/principal level who influence the direction of their own company or their clients' companies, and who directly contribute to the IT profession.

**SIM adheres to a strict policy against marketing or commercial activity; sales and marketing representatives are accepted as members through the SIM Partner Program.

Membership Dues
2013 Memberships are available (fees include Chapter and SIM International dues)

Individual Membership

Membership Organizations

The following organizations are represented in SIM San Diego:

Aetna
Agfa Healthcare
American Internet Services
AMN Healthcare
Arch Health
BAE Systems
Bridgepoint Education
Cadence Pharmaceuticals
California State University San Marcos
CareFusion
Corelogic 
Cubic
Cymer, Inc.
Daymon Interactions, Inc.
Dexcom, Inc.
DJO Global
DriveCam
Encore Capital Group
First American Title Insurance Corporation
Freight Capital
General Atomics
HGST, a Western Digital company
Insurance Company of the West
Intuit
ISIS Pharmaceuticals
Jenny Craig
KP OnCall, LLC
Kratos Defense and Security Solutions
Levementum
Mitchell International 
North County Health Services
Palomar Health
PETCO Animal Supplies, Inc.
Point Loma Credit Union
Point Loma Nazarene University
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Provide Commerce
Quidel
Rady Children's Hospital
ResMed Inc. 
San Diego Futures Foundation 
San Diego Housing Commission
San Diego State University 
Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Scripps Health
Sequenom, Inc.
Sharp Healthcare 
SNH Management
Sony Playstation
The Carrera Agency 
Verenium Corporation
Veteran's Medical Research Foundation
Vical
Websense
West Development, LLC
West Health Institute